27/08/2022
Less than a year after consolidating its $200 million business with a bespoke Publicis unit, “Team Lift,” Planet Fitness confirmed in an email to Marketing Dive that it is returning to its previous agency, Barkley, as AOR and will move its media business to Crossmedia.
The consolidation last year was intended to leverage efficiencies that could be reinvested into the brand. The CMO who engineered the strategy, Jeremy Tucker, left the company in May.
Team Lift will continue as one of Planet Fitness’s local marketing agencies, in addition to Moroch and Zimmerman. The move comes as fitness brands try to lure customers they may have lost during the pandemic.